diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index fd59bde..616afa2 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -5,3 +5,4 @@ nose==0.11.4
 rdflib==3.0.0
 argparse==1.1
 chardet==1.0.1
+-e git://github.com/mattbasta/fastchardet#egg=fastchardet